call into play

Example Sentences

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Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping as our dotage arises?

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

Now she would have to call into play all of her climbing ability to keep going up the treacherously steep smooth slates.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

To interpret effectively any one of the Browning monologues will call into play every element of power in voice and expression which you have gained in your study of previous forms.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell

She does not ask for sedatives, but for some high stimulus to call into play her strong and well-trained faculties.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

But until now there had not arisen in their lives one of those searching questions which call into play emotions rooted far below reason and judgment, in the dark primal depths of inherited feeling.

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo